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and David Ferrie. He and I were both in the same chapter of the
Society of Special Agents of the F.B.I.
While it was true enough that by 1963 this man had
become vice-president of the coffee company, he had not been a
career man in the coffee business. Rather, he had been, like
Banister, a career agent most of his adult life in the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Subsequently, he had become a vice-
president of the Standard Fruit Company, which had been in the
business of importing bananas from Central and South America. By
1963, he had moved into the business of importing coffee from the
same area. I had no way of knowing whether or not it applied to
him specifically but I long had known that it was common practice
for our intelligence machinery to use the banana and coffee
companies -- all engaged in business down in Central and South
America -- as covers for its agents engaged in the acquisition of
information and other espionage functions. By the same token, I
had long known that it was a practice of an agency in the
Intelligence Community (such as the C.I.A.) to take aboard a man
returning from another of the agencies (such as the F.B.I.
As I looked at the small coffee company building I
wondered whether Lee Oswald actually had worked there daily. I
wondered whether he really had labored as a "second oiler" as his
papers had shown or whether the company simply had been his
nesting place until it was time for him to go to work out of Guy
Banister's location at his ill-fated assignment as an agent
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